Zhengzhong "Jay" Tu

Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, 2024-current
Research Engineer, Google Research, 2022 - 2024
Ph.D. in ECE, University of Texas at Austin, 2018 - 2022


I am currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. My research interests are Generative AI, Multimodal AI, and their real-world applications such as Autonomous Driving, Robotics, Healthcare, and AI4Sci. I was a Researcher at Google Research from 2022-2024, where I work on Image Enhancement and Computational Photography. Before that, I have spent four years working with Cockrell Family Endowed Regents Chair Professor Alan Bovik during my Ph.D. at ECE department of the University of Texas at Austin. I received my Master's and Bachelor's degrees in EE from Fudan University at Shanghai. I have interned at Google Research, Google Intelligent Camera, and YouTube Media Team.


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我将于2024年暑假入职得克萨斯农工大学计算机系任助理教授。

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I am looking for highly motivated students, in terms of RA/TA/externship/internship/visiting students. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to contact me by email, with your resume and transcripts. Should you be interested, please fill out the Google forms or email me at: tzzhire AT gmail DOT com

My research interest are broadly focused on multimodal AI, generative AI, autonomous driving, and trustworthy AI:



News:

  • July 2023 1 paper (learned resizer for vision) is accepted to ICCV 2023!
  • Feb 2023 1 paper (V4V4Real) is accepted to CVPR 2023 with Highlight (2.5% of 9155 submissions))!
  • Jan 2023 Our MaxViT (ECCV 2022) paper is highlighted on top under computer vision in Jeff Dean's 2022 Google Research Blog!
  • Oct 2022 1 paper (video quality assessment) is accepted to IEEE-SPL!
  • Sep 2022 1 paper (cooperative BEV transformer) is accepted to CoRL 2022!
  • Sep 2022 Our RAPIQUE paper is highlighted in IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing newsletter!
  • Aug 2022 Dr. Tu successfully defended his Ph.D. and officially joined Google Research!
  • Aug 2022 1 paper (Pik-Fix old photos) is accepted to WACV 2022!
  • July 2022 2 papers (multi-axis vision transformer, v2x vision transformer) are accepted to ECCV 2022!
  • July 2022 1 paper (space-time video quality) is accepted to ICIP 2022!
  • June 2022 MAXIM paper selected to best paper nominee (0.4% of 8161 submissions) at CVPR 2022!
  • Apr 2022 1 patent (banding detector) is published on United States Patent!
  • Feb 2022 1 paper (high frame-rate quality) is accepted to ICASSP 2022!
  • Jan 2022 Travel to Hawaii to present our WACV paper (UGC gaming study) at WACVw 2022!
  • Dec 2021 1 paper (efficient VQA) is accepted to PCS 2021!
  • Nov 2021 1 paper (UGC gaming study) is accepted to WACVw 2022!
  • July 2021 2 papers (temporal statistics, UGC benchmark) is accepted to ICIP 2021!
  • June 2021 1 paper (rapique & accurate VQA) is accepted to IEEE OJSP!
  • May 2021 Dr. Tu started his remote summer internship at Google Research!
  • Apr 2021 1 paper (UGC-VQA benchmark) is accepted to IEEE TIP!
  • Feb 2021 1 paper (rethinking VQA) is accepted to ICASSP 2021!
  • Dec 2020 1 paper (debanding filter) is accepted to IEEE SPL!
  • July 2020 1 paper (temporal pooling) is accepted to ICIP 2020!
  • May 2019 Dr. Tu started his remote summer internship at Google Camera team!
  • Feb 2020 1 paper (banding detector) is accepted to ICASSP 2020!
  • May 2019 Dr. Tu started summer internship at YouTube in Mountain View!
  • Aug 2018 Dr. Tu started his new journal in UT Austin!